Another Mass Shooting?

Can we go five minutes, how about five days, without shooting each other up?

Scarcely more than a month after 20 six and seven year olds were gunned down in school we have had, how many more shootings? There have been at least two in California since then and perhaps more chilling, another in Arizona (http://rt.com/usa/news/three-people-shot-phoenix-112/). Just now I saw a news report that there was a shooting in a court in Delaware. A court in Delaware. I repeat that because Wayne LaPierre seems to think having armed guards everywhere would stop these shootings. I am pretty sure most courts have armed guards.

Our pain threshold for this sort of thing is so high these days that we barely notice if it isn't an all-out massacre anymore. A kid pulls out a gun he got from his parents, blows away a teacher and shoots two other students then kills himself? Eh. Call me when we hit at least six dead, then I can be shocked.

Nothing had changed, and nothing will change. Nothing will ever change due to a mass shooting in America. It didn’t after Columbine. It didn’t after Aurora. It didn’t after Newtown, and it won’t after this one. We’re not Australia, even though they haven’t had a mass shooting since 1996.

Two months ago, the National Rifle Association (NRA) joined an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over the National Security Agency's (NSA) phone metadata collection program, most recently published by Glenn Greenwald based on leaked documents from Edward Snowden. So why does the NRA support a national database of the mentally ill?